Is
someone a "Holocaust denier" if he says that the Nazis did not make
soap from the corpses of murdered Jews? After considering the evidence -
including an actual bar of soap supplied by the Soviets - the Nuremberg
Tribunal declared in its Judgment that "in some instances attempts were
made to utilize the fat from the bodies of the victims in the
commercial manufacture of soap." [3]

In 1990, though, Israel's
official Yad Vashem Holocaust center "rewrote history" by admitting that
the soap story was not true. "Historians have concluded that soap was
not made from human fat. When so many people deny the Holocaust ever
happened, why give them something to use against the truth?," said Yad
Vashem official Shmuel Krakowski. [4]

Wannsee Conference?

Is
someone a "Holocaust denier" if he does not accept that the January
1942 "Wannsee conference" of German bureaucrats was held to set or
coordinate a program of systematic mass murder of Europe's Jews? If so,
Israeli Holocaust historian Yehuda Bauer must be wrong - and a
"Holocaust denier" - because he declared: "The public still repeats,
time after time, the silly story that at Wannsee the extermination of
the Jews was arrived at." In Bauer's opinion, Wannsee was a meeting but
"hardly a conference" and "little of what was said there was executed in
detail." [5]

Extermination Policy?

Is someone a
"Holocaust denier" if he says that there was no order by Hitler to
exterminate Europe's Jews? There was a time when the answer would have
been yes. Holocaust historian Raul Hilberg, for example, wrote in the
1961 edition of his study, The Destruction of the European Jews, that
there were two Hitler orders for the destruction of Europe's Jews: the
first given in the spring of 1941, and the second shortly thereafter.
But Hilberg removed mention of any such order from the revised,
three-volume edition of his book published in 1985. [6] As Holocaust
historian Christopher Browning has noted: [7]

"In the new
edition, all references in the text to a Hitler decision or Hitler order
for the 'Final Solution' have been systematically excised. Buried at
the bottom of a single footnote stands the solitary reference:
'Chronology and circumstances point to a Hitler decision before the
summer ended.' In the new edition, decisions were not made and orders
were not given."

Professor Mayer acknowledges that the
question of how many really died in Auschwitz remains open. In Why Did
the Heavens Not Darken? he wrote: [14}

"... Many questions remain
open ... All in all, how many bodies were cremated in Auschwitz? How
many died there all told? What was the national, religious, and ethnic
breakdown in this commonwealth of victims? How many of them were
condemned to die a 'natural' death and how many were deliberately
slaughtered? And what was the proportion of Jews among those murdered in
cold blood among these gassed? We have simply no answers to these
questions at this time."

The “Holocaust” remains the lone official religion of the entire West, a
murderous religion if ever there was one. And one that continues to
fool millions of good souls in the crudest ways: the display of heaps of
eyeglasses, hair, shoes or valises presented as “relics” of the
“gassed”, faked or deceptively exploited photographs, texts of innocuous
papers altered or purposely misinterpreted, endless proliferation of
monuments, ceremonies, shows, the drumming of the Shoah into our heads
as early as primary school, organised excursions to the holy sites of
alleged Jewish martyrdom and great show trials with their calls for
lynch-law.

Holocaust truthtellers

In 1986, Michel de Boüard, former inmate at Mauthausen, honorary dean of
the Faculty of Letters at the University of Caen, member of the
Committee for the History of the Second World War, member of the
Institut de France, said:

In the monograph on
Mauthausen that I published in Revue d’Histoire de la [Deuxième] Guerre
mondiale in 1954, I mentioned a gas chamber on two occasions. When the
time of reflection had arrived, I said to myself: where did you arrive
at the conviction that there was a gas chamber in Mauthausen? This
cannot have been during my stay in this camp, for neither myself nor
anybody else ever suspected that there was one there. This must
therefore be a piece of ‘baggage’ that I picked up after the war; this
was [an] admitted [fact] but I noticed that in my text - although I have
the habit of supporting most of my affirmations by references-there was
none referring to the gas chamber . . . (Ouest-France, August 2-3,
1986, p. 6).

In response to The Journalist's question:

You were president of the Calvados (Normandy) Association of Deportees, and you resigned in May, 1985, why?

he said:

I
found myself torn between my conscience as a historian and the duties
it implies, and on the other hand, my membership in a group of comrades
whom I deeply love, but who refuse to recognize the necessity of dealing
with the deportation [ 1] as a historical fact in accordance with sound
historical methods. I am haunted by the thought that in 100 years or
even 50 years the historians will question themselves on the particular
aspect of the Second World War which is the concentration camp system
and what they will find out. The record is rotten to the core. On one
hand a considerable amount of fantasies, inaccuracies, obstinately
repeated (in particular concerning numbers), heterogeneous mixtures,
generalizations and, on the other hand, very close critical studies that
demonstrate the inanity of those exaggerations. I fear that those
future historians might then say that the deportation, when all is said
and done, must have been a myth There lies the danger. That haunts me.
(Ibid).

What aspects of the Holocaust do revisionists believe to be supported by evidence?

A) Here is a summary of what happened to the Jews: Before the war, the Nazis encouraged emigration of
German Jewry. Laws were instituted and governmental pressures were brought to bear to
make life more
difficult for Jews in many professions which Jews came to dominate in the Weimar Republic. The "Ha'avara" or transfer agreement was reached with Zionist leaders to facilitate the emigration of German Jews to Palestine.

Emigrating Jews very often were forced to abandon much of their wealth when they left Germany. After the defeat of France, a plan was discussed by the Nazis to remove the Jews from Europe to the French colony on Madagascar. This plan was soon dropped in favor of a resettlement plan which transferred Jews into ghettos and work camps inside Soviet territory following the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. This was to be the first stage toward the ultimate creation of a Jewish homeland after the war. As the Germans invaded and the Russians retreated, large shifts in population occurred in eastern Europe. This shift went from west to east. Tens of millions of people were involved. Many were forcibly deported into the Russian interior. Others willingly
accompanied the Communists as the Red Army retreated eastward.

General Gehlen estimated in his memoirs that a third of the population in the areas the German army was to occupy was evacuated eastward ahead of the German invasion. Since Jews were viewed by many eastern Europeans as willing accomplices of the Communists who had occupied the area in the years and months preceding the German assault, pogroms occurred after the retreat of the Red Army and prior to arrival of the German army. Many of these assaults on local Jews were in reaction to the murdering of political prisoners by the Soviet police as they prepared to retreat. These events left areas of eastern Europe, now occupied by the German Wehrmacht and under Nazi administration depopulated.

The Nazis took the situation as an opportunity to remove Jews eastward into the areas abandoned during the Soviet retreat. Jews were assembled at train terminals and deported to ghettos and concentration camps established for them in the east. Some Jews were not deported, however, due to the fact their work was considered too important to the German war effort. A result of the tremendous movement of people is many families and communities were scattered and people lost contact with one another. Many of these contacts were not reestablished after the war due to a multitude of reasons the greatest of which were the
splitting of Europe in two after the war and the establishment of the state of Israel. Guerrilla groups were formed to fight the Nazi occupation. A campaign of sabotage and assassination by these groups was countered by repression on the part of the occupiers in the form of the Einsatz groups. The Einsatzgruppe fought the partisans in ways which included reprisal shooting of civilians. Jews were believed to make up the majority of partisans.

They were also the people targeted for reprisals. These reprisals took several forms which included the shooting of hostages or their deportation to ghettos and concentration camps. During the summer of 1942 a major typhus epidemic swept the Nazi concentration camp system. The most severely affected camp was Auschwitz camp in Poland. The epidemic continued for many months. Crematories were built in some of the concentration camps as part of hygienic measures established to fight the epidemics. The fumigant Zyklon B was used to exterminate the typhus-bearing body louse which spread the disease.

The total number of Jews and others who died in the camps is not known, but the total is probably in the hundreds of thousands. As the Germans suffered military reversals in 1944 and 1945, the Nazis took many who were in labor camps with them as they retreated westward. Others were left behind. As this happened, tens of millions of people were again uprooted as civilians abandoned almost everything in an effort to escape the approaching Red Army. The migration in 1941-42 was eastward. In 1944-45 it was westward.

In the beginning, Europe's Jewish
communities were concentrated in eastern Europe. By the end of the war, Europe's Jews were still in eastern
Europe, but the communities were shattered. Tens of millions of people, particularly Germans and Jews were left homeless by the war. As a result, millions of Jews emigrated. Many settled in Palestine. Many more moved to North America. Others settled in Australia, South America, and South Africa. The war was a boon for the Zionist movement. The Holocaust become the founding myth of modern day Israel. As such it became an excuse for behavior of the Israelis which would have been inexcusable. It also became the excuse for billions of dollars in aid and "reparations" being sent to Israel from Germany and the United States even though Israel did not exist during the war and its citizens were not subject to Nazi repression. Much of the aid the new Zionist state was to receive was for the purpose of resettling European refugees who did not want to go there, but had little alternative at the time.